Saturday, 22 November 2014

Indian Navy on verge of Real time tracking of Ships in Indian Ocean

SOURCE : TNN
India is looking to tie-up with as many as 24 countries for exchange
of merchant shipping data, even as its naval intelligence network to
track ships in real time has now finally become a reality six years
after the 26/11 terror strikes.
The outreach to the 24 countries, spread from Africa’s east coast to
well beyond the Malacca Strait, is being led by national security
adviser Ajit Doval. Though this will take time to fructify, the Modi
government is now all set to give the final nod to the national maritime
domain awareness (NMDA) project to bolster multi-agency coordination
and augment ongoing efforts to strengthen maritime and coastal security.
The overall endeavour is to enable the country to keep track of both
conventional and unconventional threats in its primary area of
geopolitical interest across the Indian Ocean Region and “neutralize”
them if required.A major step towards this will be the inauguration of
the central hub of National Command Control Communication Intelligence
(NC3I) network, which can track 30,000-40,000 ships on a daily basis, by
defence minister Manohar Parrikar at Gurgaon on Sunday.
Taking feeds and inputs from multiple sources ranging from coastal
radars to satellites, the Information Management and Analysis Centre
(IMAC) at Gurgaon will fuse, correlate and analyse them to assess
threats at sea.
“It’s very easy to guard land borders through fencing, electronic
devices and pickets. But at sea, there is no such luxury. The NC3I
network will alert us to unusual or suspicious movements and activities
at sea,” said assistant chief of naval staff (communications, space
& network-centric operations) Rear Admiral KK Pandey on Friday.
“The bigger plan is to go for the NMDA project, which is now awaiting
clearance from the Cabinet committee on security. The NC3I will be the
heart or backbone of the NMDA project,” he added.

While Navy and Coast Guard are behind the NC3I
network, the NMDA project will bring all stakeholders — the several
Union ministries dealing with maritime affairs as well as coastal states
and Union Territories — on the same grid.It will then be much easier to
intercept a fishing boat like Kuber, which was used by Ajmal Kasab and
nine other terrorists to reach Mumbai and unleash havoc during the 26/11
strikes. The carnage exposed the lack of “critical connectivity”
between intelligence agencies and security agencies.
As per the blueprint, “state monitoring centres” in coastal
states/UTs will act as nodes for the NMDA project, while a shipping hub
and fisheries monitoring centre will also be established. The four
existing joint operations centres at Mumbai, Kochi, Vizag and Port
Blair, set up in the aftermath of 26/11, will also be upgraded.

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